Indictments will be sought against two suspects in the year-old slayings of five students in Gainesville, a task force spokesman said late Friday.

Danny Rolling of Shreveport, La., and Edward Humphrey of Indialantic will be the subjects of a grand jury session convening on Nov. 4, said John Joyce, of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

``We feel like we have evidence that needs to be presented to a grand jury that we hope will lead to indictments against both of these people,`` Joyce said.

Both are in custody in unrelated cases.

Joyce refused to say whether investigators think the two worked together or separately in the spate of killings late last August.

The victims -- Sonja Larson, Christina Powell, Christa Hoyt, Tracy Paules and Manuel Taboada were all found stabbed in their apartments over a three-day period. Three were mutilated, and one was decapitated.

``I feel good about this news, especially about Rolling,`` said Ada Larson, mother of Sonja Larson. ``I don`t know how I feel about Humphrey. I just hope they have enough evidence because you only get one chance at conviction.``

She said family members of the victims were informed on Friday by telephone by Laura Knudson, director of victim services for the State Attorney`s Office in Alachua County.

``I certainly can`t speak for the families, but if there is an indictment, people will have a place to direct their anger, which has been free-floating for some time,`` said Knudson, who has maintained contact with family members since last August.

A jury pool to be called on Oct. 8 will be advised of the planned session and asked ``if anything in their life interferes with them serving in that time for that duration,`` Joyce said.

The jury will be put ``on notice to put their things together so they can put that much time into a case like that,`` he said.

State Attorney Len Register, the top prosecutor in Gainesville, will make the presentation, Joyce said.

More than 200 investigators have sifted through more than 6,500 clues in a case costing more than $4.7 million.

Investigators have said much of the case is built around forensic evidence, including a DNA profile on Rolling.

``I`m just delighted we have this technology and that science has advanced so far,`` Larson said. ``If anything gets them, it will be technology.``

Rolling, 37, is in a Tampa jail awaiting a trial on Monday on charges he robbed a Tampa grocery store in September. He gave body fluid samples this week to investigators from Shreveport who are investigating a 1989 triple murder with similarities to the Gainesville killings.

Humphrey, 19, is due for release from a state jail in Lake Butler on Sept. 22. He was convicted of beating his grandmother at the family home a few days after the last bodies were found in Gainesville.